Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius. It premiered on September 28, 2006, on ABC in the United States. The series follows the daily work and personal lives of Betty Suarez (Ferrera) and her boss Daniel Meade (Mabius).

The series is based on the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea ("I am Betty, the ugly"),[1] also simply known as "Betty la fea" (literally "Betty the Ugly") written by Fernando Gaitán (also author of Café, con aroma de mujer). It is adapted into an New York City setting by creator/developer Silvio Horta and co-producers Salma Hayek and Ben Silverman, whose production companies Silent H, Ventanarosa and Reveille respectively partnered with ABC Television Studio (formerly Touchstone Television) to create the hour-long program for American audiences. Hayek appears on the show as Sofia Reyes, in addition to playing a cameo role as an actress on a fictional telenovela watched by the main character's family in early episodes.

Of all the adaptations of Betty La Fea, the original Colombian telenovela, Ugly Betty is probably the most different, but it remains true to the original in spirit. It is similar to another ABC dramedy series, Desperate Housewives, in that it combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, camp, soap opera, and satire, though in a lighter way. The show is filmed like a traditional network drama (with motion picture film), rather than the videotape production of the original series.

Ugly Betty follows the daily life of Betty Suarez, a promising college graduate from a struggling Latino family in Queens. She was promptly rejected at a "job interview" at Meade Publications in Manhattan based solely on her appearance (thus the series' title). However, company CEO Bradford Meade spots her and has her hired as an executive assistant to his son Daniel Meade, the newly-installed Editor-in-chief at MODE magazine. Primarily because Bradford did not wish for Daniel to continue bedding his assistants, this after catching him having sex in his office with a potential applicant. Betty is not very interested in fashion and is sometimes clueless about the company's motives and organizations, although she has expressed a passion for photography.

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Ugly Betty Cast in latest Promo image after Episode # 14; from left to right: Urie, Newton, Williams, Indelicato, Ortiz, Plana, Ferrera, Mabius, Jensen, and Dale


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Actor
Role

America Ferrera
Betty Suarez

Eric Mabius
Daniel Meade

Alan Dale
Bradford Meade

Vanessa L. Williams
Wilhelmina Slater

Becki Newton
Amanda Tanner 5

Ana Ortiz
Hilda Suarez

Ashley Jensen
Christina McKinney

Tony Plana
Ignacio Suarez

Michael Urie
Marc St. James

Mark Indelicato
Justin Suarez

Kevin Sussman
Walter 1

Rebecca Romijn
Alexis Meade 4

Christopher Gorham
Henry 3

Judith Light
Claire Meade 3